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also, president obama promising more transparency on those lethal drone strikes overseas. this as the faa moves forward with plans for drones here in the u.s. a look at the latest efforts to put more eyes in the skies. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso. your soups are so awesomely delicious my husband and i can't stop eating 'em! what's...that... on your head? can curlers! tomato basil, potato with bacon... we've got a lot of empty cans. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. jenna: breaking this hour, new images of oscar pistorius in court. the south african olympian known as, "blade runner", seen sobbing as he is formerly charged with murder. as you know he is accused of shooting and killing his model girlfriend on valentine's day. we have team coverage. lori rothman covering some business angles emerged given the story is such a huge superstar athlete. we begin with elizabeth prann with the latest on the case. >> reporter: what an emotional hearing it was, jenna. oscar pistorius sobbing as he stood with his head down in front of the judge as he was forma
also, president obama promising more transparency on those lethal drone strikes overseas. this as the faa moves forward with plans for drones here in the u.s. a look at the latest efforts to put more eyes in the skies. [ woman ] ring. ring. progresso. your soups are so awesomely delicious my husband and i can't stop eating 'em! what's...that... on your head? can curlers! tomato basil, potato with bacon... we've got a lot of empty cans. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup....
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jon: a brand new look at one of the most secretive and controversial policies of the obama administration. good morning, i'm jon scott. jenna: hi, everybody. glad you're with us today. i'm jenna lee. these reports are surfacing of a confidential justice department memo that authorizes the killing of american citizens overseas in drone strikes. now there's a caveat. the killing is allowed if they're leaders of al qaeda or a associated terror group. this alone considered an imminent threat, even if there is it no clear evidence that a specific attack on the united states will take place in the immediate future. and the whole controversial issue sure to come up when the president's pick to head the cia john brennan, testifies at his confirmation hearings later this week. timing matters. chief intelligence correspondent herridge shirge is live in washington with more on this. >> reporter: this is clash between executive powers and congressional oversight. at center of this is the assertion by the obama white house it has the right to target american citizens for death without judicial review.
jon: a brand new look at one of the most secretive and controversial policies of the obama administration. good morning, i'm jon scott. jenna: hi, everybody. glad you're with us today. i'm jenna lee. these reports are surfacing of a confidential justice department memo that authorizes the killing of american citizens overseas in drone strikes. now there's a caveat. the killing is allowed if they're leaders of al qaeda or a associated terror group. this alone considered an imminent threat, even...
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the obama administration insists it is just a backup plan. many are wondering why it was leaked in the first place. someone happy.♪ ♪it's so important to make someone happy.♪ ♪make just one heart to heart you - you sing to♪ ♪one smile that cheers you ♪one face that lights when it nears you.♪ ♪and you will be happy too. tens of thousands of dollars in hidden fees on their 401(k)s?! go to e-trade and roll over your old 401(k)s to a new e-trade retirement account. none of them charge annual fees and all of them offer low cost investments. e-trade. less for us. more for you. >> announcer: you never know when, but thieves can steal your identity and turn your life upside down. >> hi. >> hi. you know, i can save you 15% today if you open up a charge card account with us. >> you just read my mind. >> announcer: just one little piece of information and they can open bogus accounts, stealing your credit, your money and ruining your reputation. that's why you need lifelock to relentlessly protect what matters most... [beeping...] help
the obama administration insists it is just a backup plan. many are wondering why it was leaked in the first place. someone happy.♪ ♪it's so important to make someone happy.♪ ♪make just one heart to heart you - you sing to♪ ♪one smile that cheers you ♪one face that lights when it nears you.♪ ♪and you will be happy too. tens of thousands of dollars in hidden fees on their 401(k)s?! go to e-trade and roll over your old 401(k)s to a new e-trade retirement account. none of them...
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even though president obama has said the u.s. does not have a spending problem, a new fox poll shows americans overwhelmingly believe the country's pursestrings are way too loose. take a look at this. a whopping 83% of americans say the federal government does have a spending problem. south dakota republican senator john thune agrees saying washington is addicted to spending your money. >> at $16.4 trillion, our nation's total debt is now larger than our entire economy. this means that every man, woman and child owes a $53,000 share of this debt. that level of spending is unsustainable. the only way, the only way to dig ourselves out of this hole and put our country on a sound financial footing is to get spending under control. jon: senator john thune joins me now from the capitol. senator thune, president obama won re-election in part touting the same thing that got him through his first term which seemed to involve a lot of government spending. how do you turn that around? >> be good question, jon. and i expect tonight we'll he
even though president obama has said the u.s. does not have a spending problem, a new fox poll shows americans overwhelmingly believe the country's pursestrings are way too loose. take a look at this. a whopping 83% of americans say the federal government does have a spending problem. south dakota republican senator john thune agrees saying washington is addicted to spending your money. >> at $16.4 trillion, our nation's total debt is now larger than our entire economy. this means that...
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. >>> president obama plans a trip to israel. what it could mean for his dicey relationship with benjamin netanyahu and our role in this volatile region. >>> how being facebook friends with someone could mean a big change in the courtroom. it is all "happening now." jenna: i don't think we're facebook friends, are we. jon: i don't think so. jenna: is that okay for our relationship? jon: that's a good thing. jenna: i think might be a good thing. jon: there is a cloud of controversy though hanging over the president's choice to lead the cia good wednesday morning to, to you, i'm jon scott. this is my nonfacebook friend. jenna: we're all friends. this is on a bigger level. i'm jenna lee. we're glad to have you as we look at this big story. john brennan gears up for his confirmation hearings tomorrow and he could face resistance from republicans democrats and some of the president's really usual supporters. it will come on a number of issues. all of this questioning, potential controversy from the program that authorizes targeted dro
. >>> president obama plans a trip to israel. what it could mean for his dicey relationship with benjamin netanyahu and our role in this volatile region. >>> how being facebook friends with someone could mean a big change in the courtroom. it is all "happening now." jenna: i don't think we're facebook friends, are we. jon: i don't think so. jenna: is that okay for our relationship? jon: that's a good thing. jenna: i think might be a good thing. jon: there is a cloud...
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i think president obama's remarks demonstrated why. the notion that north korea cares about its international obligations, quote unquote, or that iran or north korea can be chit-chatted out of their nuclear weapons programs, these are the delusions we've pursued the past ten years and it's no surprise that we are as far behind the eight ball as we are. jenna: as you mentioned after that speech in 2002 north korea went nuclear if you will under president bush in 2006, four years after the axis of evil speech was made. how do we prevent history from repeating itself under the obama administration where we talk about sanctions against iran waoerbgs talk about diplomas see, and iran in several years or sooner goes nuclear. >> let's start with north korea which is the most heavily sanctioned country on earth, it's population perennially near starvation, one of the poorest countries on the planet exploded three nuclear devices and put a payload into space. if they are determined to get to a nuclear capability sanctions of the kind we imposed
i think president obama's remarks demonstrated why. the notion that north korea cares about its international obligations, quote unquote, or that iran or north korea can be chit-chatted out of their nuclear weapons programs, these are the delusions we've pursued the past ten years and it's no surprise that we are as far behind the eight ball as we are. jenna: as you mentioned after that speech in 2002 north korea went nuclear if you will under president bush in 2006, four years after the axis...
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bush and continued and even enhanced under barack obama. jon: things look awfully different when you sit in the oval office. >> you see the intelligence reports that scare but the threats that are real. jon: perhaps that is why his hair is going gray. you can catch paul gigot during "journal editorial report" here 2:00 p.m. eastern on fox news channel. jenna. jenna: a star athlete's dream of playing football at the university of arkansas could be shattered if his mother gets her way. the mom is now hiring a legendary law firm to keep him from enrolling. why is she doing this? does she vili have a case? our legal panel weighs in just ahead. >>> also "toy story" employees getting a major shock as a car comes crashing into the building. more incredible video coming up. copd makes it hard to breathe, but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now i can be in the scene. advair is clinically proven to help significantly improve lung function. unlike most copd medications, advair contains both an anti-inflammatory and a long-acting bronchodilator w
bush and continued and even enhanced under barack obama. jon: things look awfully different when you sit in the oval office. >> you see the intelligence reports that scare but the threats that are real. jon: perhaps that is why his hair is going gray. you can catch paul gigot during "journal editorial report" here 2:00 p.m. eastern on fox news channel. jenna. jenna: a star athlete's dream of playing football at the university of arkansas could be shattered if his mother gets her...
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president barack obama, for rebuking senator barack obama when he was excoriating the bush white house. in the long term the effects of this will be good because it is part of what is called a war on terror which was authorized by congress in the days after 9/11 and it is right that this should be a presidential decision. >> most of the criticism of the president's decision, this is president obama now, we're speaking of, has really focused on his passion for secrecy, rather than on the action itself. so most people are not questioning the right to kill people rather than capture and interrogate them which might be a value to our national security. >> people should acquaint themselves with the federalist papers. secrecy and executive dispatch is the reason we have a president, not just a parliamentary system. and so that's what president obama has discovered too. jon: but we also got rid of kings or, you know, set up a government that doesn't involve kings because we didn't like having one person have the power to sort of order life-and-death decisions. >> right. but we also understand
president barack obama, for rebuking senator barack obama when he was excoriating the bush white house. in the long term the effects of this will be good because it is part of what is called a war on terror which was authorized by congress in the days after 9/11 and it is right that this should be a presidential decision. >> most of the criticism of the president's decision, this is president obama now, we're speaking of, has really focused on his passion for secrecy, rather than on the...
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jon: high noon on the east coast, and right now president obama is in virginia. he's there to talk about, you know what it is, the sequester, right? the automatic spending cuts that kick in on friday. and how it will affect the economy. welcome, i'm jon scott. jenna: sequester, huh? jon: you heard that term before? jenna: i have. hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. the president is focusing on the impact of cuts specifically to the military if this all happens on friday. he's on his way to visit virginia's largest industrial employer, a shipbuilder. and he's warning the sequester will put hundreds of thousands of people in the defense industry out of work. wendell goler is live in newport news, virginia, with more on this. wendellsome. >> reporter: jenna, 90,000 virginians employed by the defense department could be furloughed if there's no deal by friday. newport news is really the heart of this country's shipbuilding industry. that green circle behind me is the radar dome, the nose cone of what will one day be the nuclear submarine illinois, but work schedules here a
jon: high noon on the east coast, and right now president obama is in virginia. he's there to talk about, you know what it is, the sequester, right? the automatic spending cuts that kick in on friday. and how it will affect the economy. welcome, i'm jon scott. jenna: sequester, huh? jon: you heard that term before? jenna: i have. hi, everybody, i'm jenna lee. the president is focusing on the impact of cuts specifically to the military if this all happens on friday. he's on his way to visit...
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[applause] [applause] jon: "happening now" at the white house president obama shake hands with a group of first responders that were brought in to serve as a backdrop to his speech railing about the possibility of the sequester that gigantic meat axe that will be swung at the federal budget especially on the pentagon in ten days or so march 1st. that's when it's scheduled to kick in. you heard the president railing about it there. i'm jon scott along with jenna lee. a.b. stoddard is associate editor and a columnist for "the hill." the president railed about congress and this terrible law that was passed without mentioning that it was a white house idea, right? >> right. it is an idea that originated in the white house, but republicans certainly voted for the budget control act in 2011, which included the sequester, because they too thought it could be reversed or undone or replaced. and we're looking 18 months later at -- ten days as you said, not enough time to change these cuts. there is an acceptance in washington in both parties that it's going to go through, and both the white hou
[applause] [applause] jon: "happening now" at the white house president obama shake hands with a group of first responders that were brought in to serve as a backdrop to his speech railing about the possibility of the sequester that gigantic meat axe that will be swung at the federal budget especially on the pentagon in ten days or so march 1st. that's when it's scheduled to kick in. you heard the president railing about it there. i'm jon scott along with jenna lee. a.b. stoddard is...
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especially the ma critical -- mcchrystal review under president obama. you have afghan security force, 350,000 strong. most of the units are fighting reasonably well. they're not fighting against each other along ethnic lines. there is not the kind of sectarian conflict we saw in iraq where you have tajiks against pashtuns. they're on track for a presidential next year. president karzai says he will respect the constitution and step down. there are a number of hopeful indicators. jon: you're going with the glass half fall scenario at least? >> 52% full. jon: michael al o'hanlon from the brookings institution. >> my pleasure. jon: jenna. jenna: arguing over government spending we're learning the feds are spending more than 100 million dollars a year to pay workers for doing nothing. we'll explain that coming up. >>> the prosecutor in the jodi arias murder trial is getting fired up. not necessarily in a good way. not happy with the answers he is getting in cross-examination. we'll discuss whether the aggravation is getting him anywhere. >> i'm more focused
especially the ma critical -- mcchrystal review under president obama. you have afghan security force, 350,000 strong. most of the units are fighting reasonably well. they're not fighting against each other along ethnic lines. there is not the kind of sectarian conflict we saw in iraq where you have tajiks against pashtuns. they're on track for a presidential next year. president karzai says he will respect the constitution and step down. there are a number of hopeful indicators. jon: you're...
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now, if president obama does go cut muscle, things that are important, voters are going to be looking at him saying, mr. president, you could have cut fat. what about those travel budgets? what about the programs that don't work? what about the scandal-ridden or fraud-ridden programs? why aren't you doing that rather than cutting the muscle? jon: but clearly the white house gambling or believing that when all is said and done, the american people are going to blame congress for any ill effects that come from the sequester cuts. >> right. but it's a big bet. and it could turn out badly. i think the republicans ought to take an affirmative step and call the president's bluff. the house republicans ought to, in my opinion, pass legislation that makes clear the president has the authority inside these agencies not to cut every activity across the board, but to cut less essential programs more and important programs less. and they ought to give this flexibility to the president and then use the power under article i, section 9 of the constitution, the power of the purse it's called, and ca
now, if president obama does go cut muscle, things that are important, voters are going to be looking at him saying, mr. president, you could have cut fat. what about those travel budgets? what about the programs that don't work? what about the scandal-ridden or fraud-ridden programs? why aren't you doing that rather than cutting the muscle? jon: but clearly the white house gambling or believing that when all is said and done, the american people are going to blame congress for any ill effects...